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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (23983)	12/18/2003 12:10:06 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 93284

Speaking of cyber....here's the ace in the hole for BUSH....ELECTRONIC ELECTION FRAUD don't worry...your SACRED VOTE is now in the hands of HACKERS and CROOKS... Bush making SURE he'll win like Florida Critics: Convicted felons worked for electronic voting companies RACHEL KONRAD Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - A manufacturer of electronic voting machines has employed at least five convicted felons as managers, according to critics demanding more stringent background checks for people responsible for voting machine software. Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a subsidiary of Diebold Inc., one of the country's largest voting equipment vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who conducted fraudulent stock transactions, and a programmer jailed for falsifying computer records. The programmer, Jeffrey Dean, wrote and maintained proprietary code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes as senior vice president of Global Election Systems Inc. Diebold purchased GES in January 2002. According to a public court document released before GES hired him, Dean served time in a Washington correctional facility for stealing money and tampering with computer files in a scheme that "involved a high degree of sophistication and planning." "You can't tell me these people passed background tests," Harris, author of "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century," said in a phone interview. Michael Jacobsen, a spokesman for North Canton, Ohio-based Diebold, emphasized that the company performs background checks on all managers and programmers. He said many GES managers - including Dean - left at the time of the acquisition. "We can't speak for the hiring process of a company before we acquired it," Jacobsen said. He would not provide further details, saying company policy bars discussion of current or past employees. The former GES is Diebold's wholly owned subsidiary, Global Election Management Systems, which produces the operating system that touch-screen voting terminals use. Dean could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., announced a bill last week that would require stringent background checks on all electronic voting company employees who work with voting software. The bill, which the California Democrat plans to introduce in January, would toughen security standards for voting software and hardware, and require touch-screen terminals to include printers and produce paper backups of vote counts by the 2004 presidential election in November. Harris and Andy Stephenson, a Democratic candidate for secretary of state in Washington, conducted a 10-day investigation in Seattle and Vancouver, where the men were convicted. Harris and Stephenson released the findings in a 17-page document online and at a news conference in Seattle. Also Tuesday, Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed announced legislation that would require electronic voting machines in Washington to produce a paper trail. If the legislature approves it, touch-screen machines in the state would be required to produce paper receipts by 2006. Voters would get to see but not touch or remove the receipts, which would be kept in a county lock box. Computer programmers say software bugs, hackers or electrical outages could cause more than 50,000 touch-screen machines used in precincts nationwide to delete or alter votes. California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced Nov. 21 that touch-screens in the nation's most populous state must provide paper receipts by 2006. CC

To: jttmab who wrote (23983)	12/18/2003 1:45:55 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 93284

I was impressed that they thought to go after the Google cached copies...very thorough. They've also been running hacker attacks against the Memory Hole from time to time: thememoryhole.org

To: jttmab who wrote (23983)	12/18/2003 1:54:52 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE: More on Vanishing Records on the Web: thememoryhole.org Over 300 Congressional Research Service Reports That Were Pulled from the Web >>> The Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress, provides fact-rich, unbiased, nontechnical reports to members of Congress regarding a variety of issues. The CRS does not distribute these reports to the public in any way. You can't get them online, order paper copies from the CRS, or even read them in the Library of Congress. CRS is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The Service's philosophy is that it works for Congress, not the people, so its publications are deliberately made difficult to get. A few exceptions exist. Some third parties get selected reports through Congressional representatives, then post them online. The State Department's Website contains CRS reports that State prepared. Penny Hill Press provides all CRS reports, but you have to cough up $29.95 for each report if you're not a subscriber ($7.95 is you are a $299-per-year subscriber). For a while, the Websites of Congressmen Mark Green and Christopher Shays provided a gateway to a CRS internal database, giving us access to a large but still incomplete selection of these reports. (Frustratingly, the CRS database blocked search engines, meaning that the reports never showed up in searches and weren't cached by Google or Gigablast.) In mid-October, Green and Shays suddenly shut off access. Since theirs were the only doors into the CRS database, all of us lost access to this rich source of information. Luckily, The Memory Hole had copied many of these reports before the curtain came down. Below you will find the four main pages from Green's portal to the CRS database. If The Memory Hole has a copy of any given report, the link "MemHole mirror" appears after the title. We're interested in filling the gaps, so if you have a report that's listed but not mirrored, please send it. And we're especially interested in receiving CRS reports that don't appear anywhere else online. For more info on access issues surrounding CRS publications, read "Congressional Research Service Products: Taxpayers Should Have Easy Access" from the Project on Government Oversight. pogo.org Mirrored CRS lists and reports at The Memory Hole Long Reports thememoryhole.org Short Reports thememoryhole.org Issue Briefs thememoryhole.org Appropriations Reports thememoryhole.org Other Sources of CRS Reports Intelligence and Related Issues [Federation of American Scientists] Nuclear, Chemical and Missile Weapons and Proliferation [FAS] Military and National Security [FAS] Environmental Policy [National Library for the Environment] Foreign Relations and Related Issues [State Department] Penny Hill Press Thanks to Steven Aftergood of FAS and Secrecy News